Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (No. 99) - Colombia (Ratification: 1969)

1. Noting the Government's indication that the minimum wage applicable to the urban and to the rural sectors has been unified since 1985, the Committee refers to the direct request on Convention No. 26.

2. Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee notes with interest that section 129 of the Substantive Labour Code, as amended by section 16 of Act No. 50 of 1990, prescribes the maximum proportion of the wage which may be paid in the form of allowances in kind (30 per cent in the case of minimum wage and 50 per cent for higher wage).

3. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the statistical publication supplied with the Government's report, according to which, out of the total of 1,938 undertakings visited in 1991 by the labour and social security inspection, primary sector undertakings (agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing and livestock breeding) counted only 75 undertakings (3.9 per cent of the total). The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying information on the practical application of the Convention (Article 5), and on labour inspection activities related to its application, including the effects in the agricultural sector of the restructuring of the labour inspection services described in the Government's report and any measures taken to strengthen the implementation of the minimum wage in agriculture.